Cumulating & Analysing Requirements

In order to provide relevant and streamlined solutions, client requirements are gathered in a structured manner for feasibility analysis. Under circumstances where exact project specifications outlining the behavior of the software, does not exist, Comex Software undertakes scope documentation preparation and prototypes building to take client concepts and put it on paper. This is followed by brainstorming sessions to communicate on the best technology options available and techniques to overcome possible challenges.

Architecture

Based on detailed specifications, architecture is planned, to ensure stability of the product software or application. Functional specifications are subjected to analysis to ensure all requirements can be met and future scalability is possible. An exact time and cost estimate is then provided for client consideration.

Programming & Testing

This phase involves the actual development and implementation of the project. Initial prototype provided to the client is herein replaced by a full scale solution. Clients are given the option to stay in the developmental loop by constantly monitoring progress through our internal project management portal. Upon completion of project development, codes are subjected to stringent software testing for early elimination of bugs and errors, which can prove costly down the line if not detected at this stage. Once satisfied with the flawlessness of the final product, it is released to the client for review and feedback.

Launch

The final phase of the development cycle includes transferring the software to client hosting followed by a final bug check. Our success is in making your business a success. With this in mind, clients are provided training and operating manuals for the software in order to fully prepare and familiarise them with the product.

Post Production Maintenance

The best way to ensure product and code quality is not compromised is to have the same developers working on the post production software maintenance. Based on project size, software maintenance are followed through either as a part of the original contract, or as an additionally purchased option. These contracts include any unforeseen bug corrections that may arise, as well as functionality customisations that the client may require to keep the software updated with market requirements.

Comex Software’s ‘Cloudline’ represents the next-generation of cloud computing technology and will forever change the virtual computing landscape. Customers can acquire a server or business application in minutes, without any capital investment. Cloudline enables management of online infrastructure easier than ever before via a self-service web portal.

Cloud Portfolio

Comex Software has a basket of SLA based services which can be rapidly deployed, including :

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

PasS (Platform as a Service)

StraaS (Storage as a Service)

Managed Hosting (Dedicated & VPS)

Managed Messaging

On Demand

Comex Software Cloudline offers Infrastructure, Platform and Software -as-a-Service. This means that any infrastructure such as server, storage or network infrastructure can be provisioned in a few minutes securely and confidentially. Payment is as per your services consumed, just like payment for anyother services such as electricity consumption or phone usage.

Scalable

Customers provision only as much as is needed and payment for only what is consumed! Predictability of payment is guaranteed, by setting of limits for usage based on existing requirement / consumption only.

Control Costs

In a cloud environment, customer pays for exactly what he is using. No wasted resource, no wasted electricity, no wasted air-conditioning and no need to employ maintenance staff.

Database Administration

Outsourcing Database Administration (DBA) services as a means to reduce IT expenses is the order of the day. Remote rendering of DBA services results in improved system performance, enabling high efficiency and lower cost of operation. At Comex Software, we help our clients benefit by deploying a team of remote DBA experts at a fraction of the cost of hiring full time equivalents with comparable experience locally.

Remote DBA services are covered by a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with all parameters that range from simple database augmentation to avoiding of gaps in service coverage to 24X7 proactive monitoring that can help detect problems before they occur. Additionally, we provide a number of valuable reports designed to aid in database system performance.

Comex Software will help you determine the best administrative strategies, hedge risks and exposure to disruptive downtime and make sure your databases operates at peak efficiency, regardless of the user load.

We have information resources, analytical tools and most important, certified database experts who can help you understand and evaluate the full range of database administration options so that you can build a strong database administration and technology strategy.

Services

Notification of system alerts due to performance, Availability and Resources

Scan system log files

Verify Backups

Professional DBA support

Reporting

24×7 DBA monitoring and 99.9% uptime of data

Daily and Weekly report generation

Onsite Installation and Technical DB support

Databases Supported

Oracle

Microsoft SQL

IBM DB2

Informix

MySQL

Sybase

MSBI

Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) is a suite of products and tools that you can use to monitor, analyse and plan your business by using scorecards, dashboards, management reporting and analytics.

Microsoft’s Business Intelligence is the ultimate powerful solution for development of corporate level Data Extraction, Management, Decision Making and Reporting systems. Our SQL Server and .NET professionals can make use of this awesome technology for their day to day data operational activities. MSBI is a fast-growing Business intelligence solution, consisting of components from three widely used Microsoft Products: SQL Server, SharePoint and Office.

Our services are aimed at collection, consolidation, analysis and dissemination of information that allows key Business Users, across the business, to take well-informed decisions, quicker and with assurance.

We have been doing these MSBI solutions for our clients many years – taking data that exists in disparate systems in a variety of different formats, cleansing it, transforming it, centralising it and developing the tools to turn it into meaningful information.

Cognos

Cognos is the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise.

Cognos Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share, and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions. Cognos is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product on a single proven architecture it delivers.

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)

Data integration technology is generally used to extract transactional data from internal and external source applications to build the data warehouse. This overall process and the steps in it are referred to as ETL for extract, transform and load. The data is extracted from its source application or repository, transformed to the format needed for the data warehouse, and then loaded into the data warehouse. Data integration technology works hand-in-hand with technologies like Enterprise Information Integration (EII), database replication, Web Services, and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to bridge proprietary and incompatible data formats and application protocols.

Data Warehouses and Data Marts

A data warehouse or data mart stores tactical or historical information in a relational database and allows the user to extract and assemble specific data elements from a complete dataset to perform a variety of analyses. The data warehouse can be architected according to schema (star, snowflake, etc), data composition (values and attributes) and dimension levels, and descriptors. Data marts enable additional segmentation within a broader data warehouse environment.

Query, Reporting and Analysis

Technical and business analysts use a variety of tools to access data, analyze information, and view the results. They include:

Query and Reporting Tools: Most BI systems allow users to perform historical, “slice-and-dice” analysis against information stored in a relational database. This type of analysis answers “what?” and “when?” inquiries. A typical query might be, “What was the total revenue for the eastern region in the third quarter?” Often, users take advantage of pre-built queries and reports.

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Data Mining: OLAP analytical engines and data mining tools allow users to perform predictive, multidimensional analysis, also known as “drill-down” analysis. These tools can be used for forecasting, customer profiling, trend analysis and even fraud detection. They answer “what if” and “why?” questions, such as, “What would be the effect on the eastern region of a 15 percent increase in the price of the product?”

Business Performance Management: BPM uses real-time business intelligence to proactively improve productivity and encourage continuous process improvement in an enterprise. This approach extends the more traditional approach of business scorecards and can include financial, organizational, customer service, supply chain, and channel performance management.

Business Intelligence and Web Services

Business Intelligence is being fundamentally changed by eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the emerging Web Services model. XML provides a universal syntax for the representation of data, enabling integration and analysis across BI environments and across traditional organizational and technical boundaries. As this area evolves, it becomes easier for different organizations to share data.

For more information on choosing the right BI solution for your company, please read our Business Intelligence First Steps.

Advantages of using BI:

Leverage your existing data investment-BI takes the volume of data your organization collects and stores, and turns it into meaningful reports and analysis that everyone can use.

Understand the why behind results-See information across departments and drill down to discover the underlying causes of how you’re performing.

Align everyone with one, reliable version of business issues-with common data definitions and understanding of priorities, you will spend less time debating the data and more time deciding what to do.

Shorten the time to make the right decision-Timely reports and self-service reporting let you see changes when they happen and make the right decisions at the right time.

Meet the information needs of all users-flexible, user-friendly reporting means everyone can have the right information delivered in the right way.

Industry offerings

Banking, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing and Healthcare etc…

Hyperion

Oracle acquired Hyperion, a leading provider of performance management software.

Oracle acquired Hyperion, a leading provider of performance management software. This extends Oracle’s business intelligence capabilities to offer the most comprehensive system for enterprise performance management even as customers are increasingly using performance management and business intelligence together. Today’s enterprises feel the acute need for all-encompassing BI solutions to help them make crucial business decisions. These primary business drivers include – financial consolidation; financial, statutory and management reporting; budgeting, planning and forecasting; profitability modeling and optimization; and dashboard and scorecard applications.

Hyperion Enterprise’s graphical user interface and use of familiar desktop tools such as Microsoft Excel and Web browsers makes it simple to install and to learn.

Advanced Change Management Support

Hyperion Enterprise lets you quickly adapt to reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. By tracking changing organization structures over time, you will be able to monitor the effects of reorganizations and model future changes with ease.

Global Support

Hyperion Enterprise enables you to easily handle legal, statutory, and tax reporting requirements while providing the information required for management reporting. With Hyperion Enterprise, you can implement a single, global solution in up to seven languages, meeting the needs of even the largest enterprises.

Flexible Deployment

You can deploy Hyperion Enterprise on a distributed or centralized basis. Offices can have their own copy of the software, or you can centralize the licenses at your headquarters via the Web or existing wide-area networks.

Enhanced Compliance through Integration

Hyperion Enterprise’s compliance capabilities can be augmented when used in connection with Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management for Hyperion Enterprise. Strict control over data loading and validation, support for Sarbanes Oxley, and 10K to general ledger visibility provide financial managers with confidence in the numbers.

Industry offerings: Finance, Insurance and Manufacturing etc…

Informatica

We have Informatica’s Data Migration Software for data integration and we also have a project to migrate our business-critical data to a new system. This requires a clear risk assessment of the demands associated with data migration. We have projects that need to be managed in transition and we need to a clear plan to achieve the end state we must achieve. To do this right, we have to manage the scope and plan carefully or we will run out of time, experience scope-creep and go over budget.

We need support to facilitate our learning curve so we can do this right the first time.

The Comex Software ’s Data Migration Services using Informatica tools focuses upon the following areas:

From this, we are able to recommend a data migration strategy roadmap for implementation and implement the solution as well.

QlikView

QlikView Makes BI Better for Everyone

Empower Business Users

QlikView’s associative experience provides answers as fast as you can think up questions. It lets you interact with data without limitations to generate insight in ways you never imagined.

Comex Software is specialized in development of custom solutions in software development, Internet /Intranet applications and consulting services. With a group of experienced professionals, analysts and domain experts, we thoroughly analyze your business needs, industry and product requirements and deliver tailor made scalable and robust solutions.

We follow proven practices that allow for successful project completion, and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations. We have experience working with broad range of customers, from individuals to large groups.

We work closely with the clients to understand their business objectives, define their software requirements, write specifications by involving our experienced business analyst and subject matter expert, design, architect, develop, test and integrate the custom software across multiple other systems and platforms including internet, cloud and disparate systems enabling the system to function and optimally operate seamlessly for our clients.

Our custom software development services help clients build and integrate sophisticated business applications and/or websites with client server and legacy systems. We create and deploy robust, scalable and extensible architectures for use in a wide range of industries.

In Comex Software, the relationship and cooperation between our developers and our clients is given due recognition. The negotiation process itself is viewed as a means of achieving and maintaining a viable relationship. We believe in putting our main strength of application development to optimum use. Our philosophy promotes recognition of people as the primary drivers of project success coupled with effectiveness and adaptability in our work methods.

Today, data is proliferating at an astonishing rate. This data contains critical information, but it’s useless unless companies can access and leverage it. Much of the data-such as free-form text-is unstructured and defies the rigidity of database management systems. It is no longer access to information that determines winners; rather it is the application of information to solve business problems.

A BI solution specific to the domain with the backing of a well constructed data warehouse, is the key to eliminating the mentioned problem. BI can help management identify key trends, foresee predictable events, ensure availability of business-critical information and enable in making better and timely business decisions.

Comex Software Systems offer a comprehensive set of services and solutions to help you optimize business performance by becoming agile, efficient, and adaptable. These services traverse the entire lifecycle – from data modeling to reporting – designed to provide reliable & timely data for strategic and tactical decision-making to the business users that matter.

Key Differentiators

Comprehensive set of Business Intelligence services to help clients harness structured data for making business decisions and responding to insights quickly.

Helping you select the best tool to providing a full suite of DW solutions for financial management, regulatory compliance and customer services.